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JCE Online
Jon L. Holmes University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 53706
The Journal at JCE Online Last month we provided you with an introduction to JCE Online, the WWW site of JCE. We outlined how JCE Online is divided into areas for each JCE publication. This month we will focus on the Journal area of JCE Online. What Journal Materials Can I Find at JCE Online? Journal materials at JCE Online fall into several categories delineated by their content and accessibility. Accessible to Symbol All Journal JCE Online + subscribers subscribers Abstracts ✔ ✔ ✔ Full article (HTML) W ✔ ✔ ✔ Supplements W ✔ ✔ Full article (PDF) ✔ Content
The W and W symbols are used in the Journal to denote materials that are available online. They appear in the Table of Contents and at the top of each article that contains online material. Abstracts to all articles and selected full article are accessible to any JCE Online visitor. When the full article is universally available, it is denoted with a W symbol. All universally available materials are provided in HTML format. Journal subscribers also get access to any supplementary materials provided by the author. Articles that have such materials are denoted with a W symbol. In addition to all of the above, JCE Online+ subscribers can access the full text of all articles published in the Journal as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Navigation about JCE Online
The keys to navigation about JCE Online are the menu bars at the top of each page and the navigation side bar at the left of each page. Within the Journal area of JCE Online, there are always two menu bars at the top of each page. The top menu bar provides one-click access to the JCE Online home page, each of the JCE Online areas, and the Contact JCE page. (This “global” menu bar appears at the top of all pages at JCE Online except the home page and the News page.) The second menu bar provides one-click access to topics that pertain to the Journal: The Journal News page, the current issue, past issues, JCE Index, subscription information, and information for authors. (This “Journal” menu bar appears at the top of all pages in the Journal area of JCE Online except the Journal home page and the Journal News page.) The navigation side bars denote the current area and are color coded for each area of JCE Online. Just below the JCE logo is a menu of, usually, six items. This menu varies depending on where you are. Below this menu there may also be from one to several buttons that provide links to materials related to the current page.
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Where Do I Find Journal Supplementary Materials? The first step is to go to the Journal home page by clicking “Journal” in the menu on the JCE Online home page. From here you can access the Journal “News” containing recent items of interest to Journal readers; the Table of Contents of the “Current Issue”, the latest issue available online; the “Past Issues” that are available online (July 1995 to present); “JCE Index”, the online searchable index to all articles published in the Journal; information about how to “Subscribe” to the Journal including options available, pricing, order forms, and a Subscriber FAQ; and information “For Authors”. The universal stepping stone to all the Journal materials at JCE Online is the issue Table of Contents. You get to the Table of Contents of a specific issue via the Past Issues item in the Journal menu. All issues of the current year are displayed. Click one of the issues to go to its Table of Contents. Issues of other years that are available online are accessed by clicking on the desired year in the menu in the navigation side bar. Each issue’s menu is presented in the navigation side bar. It provides access to the Table of Contents, In This Issue, Especially for High School Teachers, Editorial, Letters, and Reviews of the issue. For issues starting with September 1996, below this menu is a button for JCE Online+ subscribers to access the “digital reprint” of the current article. The Table of Contents is arranged like the one printed in the Journal except that each of the sections is listed at the top (clicking the section name here goes directly to that section of the Table of Contents). Each article listed is linked to its abstract or to the article. It is from this abstract or article that you will find the links to any supplementary materials via the JCE Supplement button in the side bar. The discussion above assumes that you know the issue in which the article you are looking for appeared. This is the case when you see that additional information is available online while reading the Journal. But what if you do not know the issue? JCE Index comes to the rescue. JCE Index JCE Index is the online searchable index to all articles published in the Journal. It allows you to search the titles of articles for a particular word or partial word. You can also search for an author or by keywords. Successful searches return a list of citations, and entries in the list that refer to articles available online are linked to the online abstract or article. You can access the JCE Index search page from anywhere within the Journal area of JCE Online by clicking JCE Index in the Journal menu bar at the top of the page. Next month we will describe how to use JCE Index and give you some tips to make your searching more successful. We hope that you find this explanation about finding Journal materials at JCE Online useful. In the future we will be adding a search feature to JCE Online that will allow you to search the entire contents of the site for a word or phrase similar to the major Internet search sites. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions on making things easier to find at JCE Online we would like to hear them (email:
[email protected]).
Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 75 No. 2 February 1998 • JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu
